Taxonomy, Genomics and Ecophysiology of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microbes

1. Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Alphaproteobacteria: Rhodobacteraceae (Roseobacter)

   • Alison Buchan, José M. González, Michelle J. Chua

2. Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Alphaproteobacteria: Sphingomonadales

   • Michael A. Kertesz, Akitomo Kawasaki, Andreas Stolz

3. Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Archaea

   • Aharon Oren

4. Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteroidetes

   • KaeKyoung Kwon, Yong Min Kwon, Sang-Jin Kim

5. Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: Oleiphilaceae and Relatives

   • Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Stepan V. Toshchakov, Olga V. Golyshina, Manuel Ferrer, Tatyana N. Chernikova, Karl-Erich Jaeger et al.

6. Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: Porticoccus

   • Tony Gutierrez

7. Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: Xanthomonadales

   • Tony Gutierrez

8. Anaerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Deltaproteobacteria

   • Irene A. Davidova, Christopher R. Marks, Joseph M. Suflita

9. Eukaryotic Hydrocarbon Degraders

   • R. C. Prince

10. Facultative Methane Oxidizers

    • Svetlana N. Dedysh, Peter F. Dunfield

11. Global Consequences of Ubiquitous Hydrocarbon Utilizers

    • R. C. Prince

12. Hormoconis resinae, The Kerosene Fungus

    • Catherine Rafin, Etienne Veignie

13. Hydrocarbon Degradation by Betaproteobacteria

    • Watumesa A. Tan, Rebecca E. Parales

14. Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microbes as Sources of New Biocatalysts

    • Cristina Coscolín, Rafael Bargiela, Mónica Martínez-Martínez, Sandra Alonso, Alexander Bollinger, Stephan Thies et al.

15. Marine, Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: Overview

    • Tony Gutierrez

16. Marine, Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: The Family Alcanivoracaceae

    • Michail M. Yakimov, Peter N. Golyshin, Francesca Crisafi, Renata Denaro, Laura Giuliano

17. Occurrence and Roles of the Obligate Hydrocarbonoclastic Bacteria in the Ocean When There Is No Obvious Hydrocarbon Contamination

    • Tony Gutierrez

18. Prokaryotic Hydrocarbon Degraders

    • Roger C. Prince, Tivkaa J. Amande, Terry J. McGenity

19. The Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria (Methanotrophs)

    • Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya, Oscar A. Gomez, J. Colin Murrell

This book provides comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of the microbes involved in cleaning up oil spills and degrading climate-altering hydrocarbons such as methane, and has detailed discussions about the taxonomy, ecology, genomics, physiology and global significance of these hydrocarbon-degrading microbes.

• Oil-spill microbes
• crude oil
• biodegradation
• functional genomics
• Deepwater Horizon microorganisms
• aerobic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria
• anaerobic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria
• phylogeny
• methanotrophs

• University of Essex, School of Biological Sciences University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

  Terry J. McGenity

Terry McGenity is a Reader at the University of Essex, UK. His PhD, investigating the microbial ecology of ancient salt deposits (University of Leicester), was followed by postdoctoral positions at the Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre (JAMSTEC, Yokosuka) and the Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology (University of Reading).  His overarching research interest is to understand how microbial communities function and interact to influence major biogeochemical processes. He worked as a postdoc with Ken Timmis at the University of Essex, where he was inspired to investigate microbial interactions with hydrocarbons at multiple scales, from communities to cells, and as both a source of food and stress. He has broad interests in microbial ecology and diversity, particularly with respect to carbon cycling (especially the second most abundantly produced hydrocarbon in the atmosphere, isoprene), and is driven to better understand how microbes cope with, or flourish in hypersaline, desiccated and poly-extreme environments. 



He was already section editor at the first edition of this multi-volume Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology (2010),  and he is co-editor for the 17-volume Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols 2016. 

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